Been a while ... have been working on it but in between the Marlin season & Venison ...... have both in the freezer so the family are at least fed for winter

Was originally my intention to build the engine but as my first Ducati in to the 'Proffesionals' ... that & I simply didnt have the tooling required for a major ... more on rebuild later

That said when I picked up the engine the mechanic advised I was missing a swinger bearing (I supplied 3x) which simply wasnt the case as when I supplied the parts manual with a checklist of supplied parts I only ticked off after triple checking they were there ...

The only reason I bother with that story was when I went to fit the missing bearing & seal the thing kept creaping in to the case & it was at that point I noticed the internal retainer wasnt there for the inside bearing to seat on ... that wasnt GOOD!

Insult to injury I then had to replace both bearings & seals after fitting a new internal circlip

I wanted to place a Regulator into the line & was going to mount a gauge showing current/real time PSI ... but wasn't practical to mount anywhere I could view the gauge & wasn't really needed so on the basis I might be able to still sneak in a battery I made a mount under the front tank silent blocks (the silent blocks I found had longer threads on them so that doubled as a mount for the the regulator)

On the return to the tank a #40 jet was sweated in so pressure is good through high flow situations (no doubt someone will probably tell me now not small enough)

Also had to reroute the fuel line the long way around ... I couldn't find any thread that had tried / or done this particular way so again bet someone will correct me on this path ... i.e. will this work?

To complicate a messy Loom where it was converted to Kokusan Sparkers but all else seems original ... mixed in with me using Ignitech, New coils & Motoelectric Starters, etc, etc is going to make that Home Stretch .... stretch out

Yeah your bike is coming together really sweet , your'e inspiring me as my resto is really testing me, the 89 ss is a tricky beast to find some parts and info on,my engines in swingarms on with new needlerollers, triples were on but my repainted triples were chipping and so off and new bearing off and looking for a good powdercoater in perth for those and footpegs etc , the guys did my wheels and frame too aggressive on blast and now im sleeving rims for new bearings, my fault after 4 restos should have been more onto that, m1bb's are rebuilt, got a long way to go but definately inspiring to see your bike moving forward, cheers Rob. ps having trouble posting photos, will do when i can

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